Site Maps and Site Feeds for Search Engines

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You might also want to check out the site submission tools and resources that are listed at Cumbrowski.com. The resources include RSS feed (blog feed) submissions to blog directories and submissions of your website to be listed at important web directories.

Sitemaps for Search Engines

Google Webmaster Central provides a number of resources for webmasters regarding their sites in the Google search index. Next to the ability to provide Google with a list of URLs of your site, is Google also providing free statistics and reports about how Google sees your site as well as some traffic and ranking reports and if there are any technical issues you might not be aware of.

Google Sitemaps provide a Feed in GData, Atom, RSS or ROR Format. It also gives you access to useful information about your Site in Google and more. Google is constantly expanding the features of this Service, transforming it to a general Webmaster Tool for "everything Google".

Yahoo! Site Explorer - Provide a Site Feed, get information like internal backlinks and external backlinks and more. Yahoo's Sitemap Tool for Webmasters.

Sitemaps Tools

CrawlScore.com crawls your website and provides a site map free, but not only that, it also checks for page title, descriptions, page sizes, internal linking, nofollow links and much more. It's a site evaluation for SEO on-page/site factors and site architecture. The service is currently in open and free beta.

Writemaps.com is a site where you can create, edit and share your sitemaps online.

SitemapGen is an open source desktop tool available for download at SourceForge.net to generate a XML sitemap for any website.

Sitemap Validator is a free tool by Smart IT Consulting to validate your XML sitemap to make sure that it has no formatting errors and will not be accepted by search engines because of that.

If the list of tools that I provided to you is not enough and you want more, no problem, check out the lists of over 30 commercial/shareware and over 50 freewareSitemap Creator Tools at Download32.com.

Blog and CMS Sitemap Plug-Ins

Google Sitemaps Generator plug-in for WordPress blogs that automaticallt creates your xml sitemap for Google and updates it automatically if you write new posts.

Sitemaps Generator Plug-In for WordPress creates a HTML sitemap for your blog. It's a good thing to have to help any search engine with crawling and finding your content. However, this tool does not submit any sitemap to search engines or generates the XML sitemap some search engine support. It's a good tool, but only complimentary to the other real XML sitemap plug-in.

XML Sitemap for Drupal is a plug-in for the open source content management platform Drupal to generate a XML sitemap for your site that follows the standard defined at Sitemaps.org.